Re: <nettime> The old, government-controlled internet

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Re: <nettime> The old, government-controlled internet
     "Buffalo Bob" <flubadub66@hotmail.com>
      Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>

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From: "Buffalo Bob" <flubadub66@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: <nettime> The old, government-controlled internet
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:51:50 GMT

Aha, advertising equals freedom, eh?

That's the old rightwing version of economic democracy speaking: one dollar, 
one vote.

Bob

>From: David Mandl <dmandl@panix.com>
>To: Nettime <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net>
>Subject: <nettime> The old, government-controlled internet
>Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 03:20:14 -0500 (EST)
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> >From an interview with Kevin O'Connor, CEO of Double Click (now under
>attack for invasion of web-surfers' privacy) in today's Guardian
>(U.K.):
>
>"There are people on the net who want to go back to the old days when
>there was no advertising and it was government controlled."
>
>This was printed as a large pull-quote, btw.

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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 10:50:25 +0100 (CET)
From: Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
Subject: Re: <nettime> Re: The old, government-controlled internet

Hi gang, I think you can call the old internet "government controlled"
insofar as it was controlled by....see the details in
ftp://athos.rugers.edu/runet. But what this CEO is suggesting even more is
that government is bad and private institutions are freedom, which isnt
true in all cases. What do you think, to give a "grassroot" exemple of an
IMHO bad pressure group, ORBS (www.orbs.org) ?

Heiko

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